Monthly Archives: October 2013

With it nearing the end of hurricane season it’s only appropriate to do a brief summary of the activity this year. It’s been a surprisingly low-key season as far as hurricanes are concerned. There have been only a few hurricanes and the barometric pressure of any hurricane this season has not even come close… Read More »

The beta distribution is highly flexible distribution and applies to many situations and environments. The beta distribution applies well when there are percentages. The upcoming New Jersey U.S. Senate election on Wednesday fits that criterion quite well. So here I applied the beta distribution to some pre-election polls where the numbers were obtained through the… Read More »

Rick Wicklin on the SAS blog made a post today on how to tell if a sequence of coin flips were random. I figured it was only fair to port the SAS IML code over to R. Just like Rick Wicklin did in his example this is the Wald-Wolfowitz test for randomness. I tried to… Read More »

I had someone ask me the other day how to take a scatterplot and draw something other than a straight line through the graph using Excel. Yes, it can be done in Excel and it’s really quite simple, but there are some limitations when using the stock Excel dialog screens. So it is probably in… Read More »

There are many kinds of intervals in statistics. To name a few of the common intervals: confidence intervals, prediction intervals, credible intervals, and tolerance intervals. Each are useful and serve their own purpose. I’ve been recently working on a couple of projects that involve making predictions from a regression model and I’ve been doing some… Read More »